The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-30
"A Budget of Breezy Gossip Re-
lating Exclusively to the
Fair Sex.
Accompanied by Some Notes on the
n Ever Changing Styles In Femi.
nine Attire.

The winter beauty will take on con-
siderably of the beast. That Is to say,
she will make herself picturesque and
comfortable, at times and places OF
cold weather, by means OF fur.
Hats and muffiers of fur will
be fashionable, and a fanciful freak
is to exactly match the hair OF
the wearer with the hair of the fur,
thus producing curiously pleasing
effect. Cold weather comfort is great
ly enhanced, of course, by prettiness
In the warm garments. The writer lis
tened to fine, robust girl In store
looking for some winter wear.
"It's got to be tight-fitting," said
she, "for / look 80 big in anything
loose"
She tried on multitude OF wraps,
and finally concluded to get a fur cape,
because it showed her waist line. She
had twenty-four-inch belt, and was 60
I ing to expose it if she froze. Boas and
muffs, for that reason, are the fashion
able outside defense against tough
American winters at the North. A
woman wrapped in O shapely mantle,
edged with handsome fur, is pretty
spectacle blowing up the street. She
may be cold, but she looks we'll; and
girl begins to understand that point
when she is 3 years old. can prove
that, for / had friends child out
dressed to death. The toad had on
new boots, and they were so tight
about the ankles that the fat little leg
bulged out over the top in painful
way.
Doesn't that boot hurt you, Pinkey?"
I asked.
"Yeth, it DOTH" replied the 4-year-
old; "but it lookth NTH" And she re-
fused to undo button, preferring to
"look NTH" and suffer.
A season ago women said that seal
skin garments had no style about them,
and they did not care for them; but
after all, this year they buy them as
frequently as any other cloaks. If we
begin to wear fur wraps we ought to
keep it up, for there is perceptible
difference in the degrees OF heat fur
nished by padding, or fabrics of the
thickest kind, and the cold-defying pelt
of an animals fur. Awoman will shop
all day in sealskin coat. frequenting
hot, crowded stores, and then go home,
and for the evening wear tailor-made
jacket, or handsome opera cloak, or
plush wrap, and for the coolest of the
twenty-four hours she will be
perishing like frog in a gar
ment utterly insufficient, after the
gorgeous warmth of her old
sealskin coat. In this way some of the
active diphtheretic, pneumonia, and
pulmonary diseases often find comforta.
BILE quarters in American Threats and
lungs. With wet, raw atmosphere
and soggy state of affairs under foot,
I the English women are far more robust
than their Yankee cousins, because
they invariably wear their sealskin
clothes from the beginning to the end
of the season. might as well say all
the year round, for you will find in
July and August British maids and
matrons draped in muslin and sport
ing white berege and lawn gowns
and wearing seal sacks on top.
Then the Enklish foot is a source oil
great merriment to the thin booted
American; but the English walking
shoe has sole fit for puddles, and is
much heavier than anything shoe
maker can sell in this country. Ameri.
can girls will not wear clumsy boots,
and you cannot have strong, service.
able, warm boot made that will be
small to the eye 1t may be tight
enough to pinch like the mischief in
side, but the bulk will be there, and q
number two foot is to all intents and
purposes in four boot.
Brocaded velvet mantles, such a:
shown in the picture, are to be 6
feature of the season. There was never